"Nah," says Loki, "I hit in a higher weight class than that these days, but I certainly would have been briefly annoyed."

"I have a hard time believing you don't want me dead badly enough to weather the brief inconvenience of everyone on Endore dying. So what's the delay?"

"Curious how you set it up," she says. "I could brute force getting rid of it but then who would admire your cunning?"

He raises a disdainful eyebrow and then stops talking. Well, aloud. Maitimo flinches.

Now Sauron is not in osanwë range! ...He's still in the room, just not in osanwë range. Loki coughs.

"You'd have to offer me something much, much better than the chance to brag."

"Is it a graphic description of how I killed the other Sauron with my bare hands, because I love telling that story."

"Oh, are we trading graphic descriptions of things we've done to alternate-dimension versions of people present? That's my favorite game! By all means go first."

"Brute force dismantling of thing it is, then." Where is thing?

Thing is everywhere. There are a couple million of thing in the room; there are trillions of thing on the planet. 

She puts Sauron back where she found him.

"I think," she says, "I know why the Tesseract is in a bad mood.'

"Oh?"

"I think this is a dormant bioweapon or something and I can bundle up all of it that's here or that came with the visitors to my world or the small handful that followed me to Flat Arda when I visited Aulë, and fling it into disused stars," she says, "but the Tesseract can't find Hex."

"Aw fuck."

"Can't find it?"

"Can't find it. Cannot locate anything in it. No wonder it's in a mood. It also - can't find Cam's worlds, any of them -"

"Could the bioweapon do any damage there?"

"I don't know how he has it set up to react to his death or if that can reach Hex. Cam, you been to Hell since he would have set this up?"

"Briefly. To my house, nowhere else, no one would have visited it, I can go back and disable the shielding around the pinhole and no more house."

"- okay, I'm clearing out here and the other two reachable worlds now -" She does that. Viruses are incinerated. "So the problem is Hex. I'd bet on my healing spell for any given case of Sauronitis but we don't know how far it would have gotten."

"There've been other people summoned, too, yes?"

"Yeah. Can't do any damage in the daeva worlds, may have gone from them to Earth."

"Have I mentioned lately I hate Saurons? I hate Saurons. - Aulë said Eru was talking about adjacency of worlds. Might be the same thing, or related."

"So we've got a potential problem on Earth and on Hex, if Sauron can even pull it off remotely.

Ask him what he wants?"

"He will want something horrifying and unconscionable compared to merely leaving him alive and very far away and he will phrase it specifically to fuck with us especially you."